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How about talking pictures and pictures travelling from one picture frame to other ?

Go work at Google. Even if you have to pay for it.

I have it. Had to shell out 800$ for the 500$ version. But its totally worth it. A great device and a great SDK.

When I grow rich, I would like to have these instead of the photo frames in my house. And then it will be like Hogwarts. It's really magical.

May be you don't have a good enough way for the user to report it to you. If you know your product is going to have problems, have a always visible feedback form and a live chat one click away from your users.

"Our idea can be stolen / integrated easily with the current big business networking web sites."

If that's really true, you probably don't have an idea at the first place.

"To be honest, as a user, iOS 4 adds nothing that truly stands out as "THIS is why I must have the iPhone" except for Facetime and the Retina Display."

I am confused. You started your post as a developer and end being an user.

There are some big things in iOS4. Multitasking (done properly), iAds, Game Center and 1500 New APIs and tonnes of improvements that apple has put in after taking experiences of millions apps created by thousands of developers. And That's HUGE.

It SUCKS for technical books with illustrated examples and diagrams. If you read lots of other books, buy it.

The Pursuit of Happyness

I had happily come to office at 7-8-9 AM to meet an higher up or attend an important meeting or whatever. That doesn't happen everyday.

In an startup, quite contrarily, I had want my co-founder to schedule meetings taking my timings into account. When not possible, I had come happily.

Are you based out of Bombay. Shoot me an email, if you want to talk in person.

"In a company like Google, there are enough people in the office during normal business hours to compensate for the time you aren't there."

Not really, there are several projects and average size of a team is quite small. In my case we were five people working on a quite large project and no one could compensate for my time. I knew I had to get something done in a week time and I will figure out how to do it. If needed, I had be there 24 hours, but otherwise I am my own boss.

You just stated why you are a terrible CEO. If you want to succeed doing a startup, unlearn everything and try to be more like him. At the least don't make things worse for him. If he is your 50% partner, he has as much right to decide the office timings as you are.

In my last job, I used to crash in the office most of the time (9 AM to 3 PM), skip most weekdays, work all night and all sunday. I never had any complaints and was considered quite good at what I do.

My last job was at Google.

Show us some for your work (homepage, graphics, audio samples, anything), so that we can better judge you and offer you guidance. That's also a better way of attracting possible recruiters.

In addition include the following in your plans,

1. Become slow. Start doing 50% of work you do now and quietly spend the rest of the time preparing for your interviews, getting some portfolio web projects live with POLISH, like getting those corners rounded and stuff. Its really important. Also make sure no one knows you are doing this.

2. When you quit, write a blog, just paste the same thing you wrote here. I am sure many out here will publicize it and help your message reach far. People like these need to be taught a lesson and best way you can do it is by telling everything you told here to his clients. I wonder if they would like to continue doing business with such a person.

Now to make you feel good. In India, 21 is actually early to start making money. I started at 21 at Google. 23-25 is the average age when people start taking jobs and making money. I am surprised that you are married. With your age and experience you should simply focus on building your skills, your resume. Note its better to have one or two polished and public projects than having dozens of half baked things lying around. If you need help polishing things, post it here (seperate thread) and we will help you out.

It seems you are at a wrong place or taken for granted and you probably need to walk out of that door yourself.

same here.

You are too young to worry this much.

You should aim to get a good software job within a year. For this, I recommend - Work on small projects or contribute to open source with the aim of lightening your resume. - Start taking part in online programming contests (TopCoder, etc) to clear those interviews. This also ligthens your resume. - You seem to be do-it-from-scratch-everything-myself guy. Instead learn technologies like Wordpress, Joomla, GWT, etc and get yourself one of those fancy personal websites. - Keep trying for a good job and get over your failures after a beer. It may take a hell lot of interviews but eventually you only need one job and it won't matter how many interviews you did fail.

To me, The most important reason to disallow spaces is being consistent with most of the web. Also, I think password with spaces are more likely to be forgotten. Its also easy to introduce spaces accidentally, and depending on the font parameters it might not be easily distinguishable too.

I hate to market myself like this, but this seems like a good thread.

My startup is building something to super-simplify how you go from initial idea to final product, especially if you are not a programmer and still want to do it on your own. Drop me a note at harsh[at]zopte.com and I will send you an invite.

no don't do that. if you are solo, you need to be focussed on what you are building. Creating something of HN scale would consume you and if you just want a community for few people, just add them to a mailing list or something.

It's a great idea.

I already have a reasonably functional PHP implementation http://hackernews.zopte.com, built using my startup, which is a web application builder for non-programmers.

I really wonder if people are having trouble browsing the original HN site on iPad.

I don't think marketing of services is encouraged here. I would not want to work with someone who doesn't even advertise his name/place on his portfolio site.

Well How about naming it whatever and later refractor using Eclipse or something. I do it all the time.

I fail to understand the need.

GMail has a lab feature called "Canned response", it does exactly what you do and its integrated into Gmail.

Also, search-and-forward would work just fine.

I used to be on the other side of phone some time back. Don't do it.

I agree. I was a SoCer long time back and its very hard to get a new idea accepted, unless its really good.

also don't ask for a compulsary profile picture. one can change it later if he likes your product.

India <period>. For me the reasons are too obvious. Stay in Mumbai or Bangalore. Its safe, cheap, good internet, english is one of the national language and if not most, one of the most culturally interesting and diverse place in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India.

P.S:- Steve Jobs took a break in India, if you are looking for precedence.

Nice work. I am curious to know how many human hours went into it.